🔰TheHindu Vocabulary - 20 December, 2019🔰
1. ASSAULTS (VERB): (हमलाः करना) make a physical attack on
Synonyms: whip, strike, batter
Antonyms: retreat, ebb
Example Sentence:
He pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer.
2. UNRAVEL (VERB): (सुलझाना) investigate and solve or explain
Synonyms: untie, unjumble
Antonyms: tangle, intertwine
Example Sentence:
They were attempting to unravel the cause of death.
3. DISMANTLE (VERB): (निराकरण, तोड़-फोड़) take (a machine or structure) to pieces.
Synonyms: breakup, flatten
Antonyms: assemble, build
Example Sentence:
The car mechanic dismantled the engine to repair it
4. PARAPHRASE (VERB): (संक्षिप्त व्याख्या, विवरण) express the meaning of (something written or spoken) using different words
Synonyms: reword, rephrase
Antonyms: transcript, echo
Example Sentence:
This is evidently a paraphrase of popular story fairytale.
5. IMPEACHMENT (NOUN): (दोषारोपण)a charge of treason
Synonyms: reprimand, charge, reprobate
Antonyms: absolve, commend, exonerate
Example Sentence:
The king cynically abandoned him, encouraging his impeachment"
6. EMBITTER (VERB): (कड़वा बोलना) make (someone) feel anger
Synonyms: frustrate, vex, antagonize
Antonyms: lessen, lighten
Example Sentence:
"He died an embittered man"
7. DETENTION (NOUN): (नज़रबंदी) the state of being detained in official custody.
Synonyms: incarceration, durance
Antonyms: relinquishment, abandoment
Example Sentence:
"The fifteen people arrested were still in police detention"
8. HOLOCAUST (NOUN): (प्रलय) destruction, devastation
Synonyms: annihilation, massacre
Antonyms: building, creation
Example Sentence:
The forest fire was a holocaust that destroyed thousands of trees.
9. MUTATING (VERB): (परिवर्तनशील) convert, modify
Synonyms: modify, anomaly
Antonyms: remain, stay
Example Sentence:
Simple organisms like bacteria mutate rapidly.
10. GENOCIDE (NOUN): (नरसंहार) the deliberate killing of a large group of people
Synonyms: carnage, holocaust
Antonyms: building, construction
Example Sentence:
This is a campaign of genocide.